Thoreau sends Benjamin Marston Watson three boxes with a cover note:
One box is full of red huckleberries warranted not to change their hue, or lose their virtues in any climate, though I will not speak for the condition of this box when opened. The other contains half a dozen cherries (Sand Cherries, Bigelow ?) The last grew within a rod of my lodge, I plucked them all today. The third box-which should contain the seeds of the Carpinus Americana-hopwood-False Elm &c waits for their seeds to ripen.
Yrs
Henry D. Thoreau
(Thoreau Society Bulletin, no. 162 (Winter 1983):1-2)
